Simple Courses
that build confidence and fuel creativity
Rhythm, Size & Color
Use delay with confidence to produce stronger Rhythm, bigger Size, and complex Color.
In this 7-Video course, CJ covers the most crucial topics and equips you to play the most important delays for modern worship. You’ll learn how use Quarter, Eighth and Dotted Eighth settings in Digital, Analog, and Tape Delays. You’ll learn how to use delay for 4/4 and 6/8 time signatures. Press the boundaries with delay and create huge rhythms and bold textures. Get access today!
Who's it for? Guitarists who want to understand the best darn pedal there is for worship guitar.
Get started with triads
Triads are one of the most powerful tools on the guitar—but they don't have to be complicated.
Pain-Free Triads simplifies major and minor triads into an easy-to-follow system that helps you navigate the fretboard with confidence and use triads in any musical style.
Who's it for? Guitarists who want the simplest path to learning major and minor triads.
Craft Powerful Tone
Discover how great guitar tone is really built. In this course, you'll learn how Gain, EQ, and Compression shape every sound you make.
Learn how to dial in amp modelers/IRs, pickups, and pedals with confidence. Create clear, inspiring tone that fits in a worship mix. Instead of chasing new gear or copying presets, you'll gain a simple framework that helps you get the most out of the gear you already own—and consistently dial in great tone in minutes, not hours.
Think Like the Pro’s
Stop memorizing chord progressions. Start understanding them.
The number system reveals the patterns behind the chords, making songs easier to learn, easier to remember, and easier to play in any key.
In this course, you’ll learn how to see chord progressions as numbers in the CAGED keys.
Who's it for? Any guitarist who wants chord progressions to finally make sense.
Play Like A Worship Guitarist
Modern worship guitar has its own language. To serve a worship band well, you need more than scales and chords—you need the techniques that define the style.
In this course, you'll learn five essential worship guitar concepts: Diamonds, Loops, Wall of Sound, Doubling, and Swells, and how to use them in real musical situations.
Who's it for? Any guitarist who wants to play electric guitar effectively in modern worship music.
Accelerate Your Growth
I’d love to work with you! In my one-on-one coaching, I prioritize your unique requests and format our time to best fit you. We meet on Zoom or Google Meet, 45 minutes each session. (Often, we take the whole hour because I like talking about this stuff). Questions? Send them to: cj@dontgiveup.pro
Choose how many sessions you’d like below.
Get customized advice for your guitar journey.
Over the last 20 years CJ has helped hundreds of worship guitarists cut through the noise and confidently create powerful music.
Sessions are on Zoom and are tailored to your unique goals.
Who's it for? Any worship guitarist who wants clarity, encouragement, and creative confidence.
Bring Your Chords to Life
In this 18-page PDF you’ll get:
CJ’s New Song Chart (2 Versions)
The CAPO Chart
Worship Chord Diagrams for Open Chords, Power Chords & Triads
New One-String Alt Tuning courses for “Drop D” and “Drop A”
New ACE triad videos as well as instant access to all of the free ACE triad series.
AND, you have full permission to DUPLICATE this PDF and send it to your band!
Great sounding chords are easier than you think.
Simple Chords for Modern Worship is an 18-page PDF with the charts CJ uses every week: his New song chart, a capo chart, and worship chord diagrams for open chords, power chords and triads.
It also includes one-string alt tunings for Drop D and Drop A, plus ACE triad video links.
Who’s it for? Any worship guitarist who wants a simple, reliable reference for the chords that come up every Sunday.